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Friday, October 23, 2009

Allentown Human Relations Comm'n is Sorry

Yesterday, I told you that Allentown's Human Relations Commission snubbed Tony Phillips, the city's first black elected official, at a dinner earlier this week. You'll be pleased to know that Vice Chair Allyson Diane Hamm did send Tony an "apology" yesterday. She took a break from a Meet'nGreet with Mayor Ed to tell Tony he was introduced after he left, and that if he had stayed, he would know that and that he should have given them the courtesy of letting them snub him a little longer and he was too late and they are nonpartisan and it was a lovely evening anyway, so there.

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The Allentown branch of this once highly-regarded organization should be censored by Harrisburg headquarters. Their conduct is a disgrace and violates the very mission these (advocates? ha) pledge to follow.

This is purely "Chicago Style" politics and nothing more. The bumbling bureaucrats like Arcelay were given cushy patronage jobs by Pawlowski and now Phillips is the enemy. They were only scoring points with the boss for blowing Tony off.